# IDS Connection for MiVoice 5000 Contacts from Active Directory

You can use an IDS connection from an Active Directory server to synchronize contacts (not users) and to provide authentication of MiCollab users.

To synchronize contacts from Active Directory, create an IDS connection that specifies a query for records of type (ObjectClass=contact).

Note: You can configure one IDS connection to an Active Directory server to support both Active Directory authentication and contact synchronization, or create one IDS connection to support contact synchronization with the MiVoice 5000 and another IDS connection to an optional Active Directory server to support Active Directory authentication of MiCollab users. Two connections are supported in this case because the Authentication Only connection does not perform any record synchronization.
Note: To configure an IDS connection to provide only contact synchronization, check the Enable synchronization box and clear the Enable authentication box. To configure a connection for to provide both contact synchronization and Active Directory authentication of MiCollab users, check the Enable synchronization box and clear the Authentication only box.

The following is an example of a single IDS connection that synchronizes contacts and provides Active Directory authentication:

Figure 1: IDS Connection for MiVoice 5000 with Contacts from Active Directory